A Serious Man

I apologize that you (all 5 of you) have to occasionally read multiple posts about the same movie. Most of the time the contributors of this blog have common sense and know what is a good movie and what is a bad movie. However, occasionally we will disagree. This is not one of those times. While I don't have as big a hard on for the Coen brothers as other members of this blog, it is still a fact that THIS MOVIE IS EXCELLENT.

However, I still believe that Moon, Thirst, and (yes, you're reading correctly) Ponyo come first in The Best of 2009, but this might come in as number 4.

A Serious Man: 5 out of 5

A Serious Man (2009)

Brief Premise: the Coen Brothers made another Perfect Movie.


Oh, I'm sorry, did you want me to write a review? Maybe I will, after I've seen this a few more times. Until then, maybe you should just go watch it yourself because it's so good. The end. That's the end of this review.

Ok, no it isn't.

No, it is.

Micro Review: Violent Cop (1989)

Micro Review Disclaimer:

There will be times (frequently) when I’ll be unable to muster up the energy to take on the impossible task of using any significant amount of language to convey my ideas about something. This is one of those times. Please enjoy this micro review (people of the Twitter mindset can ignore the previous disclaimer as they will not notice anything out of the ordinary in what follows).

Violent Cop is the feature directorial debut of “Beat” Takeshi Kitano*, a man who does a ton of stuff, but of whose work I’ve only seen one other film. The film’s title also serves as a synopsis and as its own nano-review - imagine Dirty Harry only more violent, not as engaging, but more visually striking. Conclusion: It’s not a bad way to spend an hour and forty minutes, and we should all probably watch a few Takeshi Kitano movies.





*in this case the name in quotation marks is not an hilarious fake nickname, but a non-hilarious actual stage name.